The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
“In the South.. these proposals mimic arguments that you see behind book bans & laws that criminalize gender-affirming health care & abortion information” Our campaigner @sarahephilips.bsky.social breaks down the battle against online ID checks for @wired.com
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05.12.2025 21:05
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket landed its booster on a barge at sea – an achievement that will broaden the commercial spaceflight market
Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company Blue Origin is now the second, after SpaceX, to land a rocket booster for reuse.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket landed its booster on a barge at sea, on its second operational launch. That efficiency matters: reusable boosters are how SpaceX has driven down launch costs, and now a competing company has proven it can do the same.
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16.11.2025 01:07
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I wouldn't be here today if not for the internet, the friendship, the spaces, the communities, I've needed it. The internet is a tool for us to come together, to find each other and ourselves.
Censorship will take it all away from everyone.
15.11.2025 23:28
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What does ‘pro-life’ mean? There’s no one answer – even for advocacy groups that oppose abortion
The term ‘pro-life’ can seem simple – but how Americans and advocacy groups interpret it varies widely.
“Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. And someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”
- Pope Leo XIV
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16.11.2025 05:35
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
14.11.2025 18:05
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‘Simulation theory’ brings an AI twist out of ‘The Matrix’ to ideas mystics and religious scholars have voiced for centuries
The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom's 2003 ‘simulation hypothesis’ – the idea that we might be living in a computer-generated world – isn't entirely new. Religious scholars and mystics have considered that all life is an illusion for centuries. buff.ly/TfFzeVs
16.11.2025 11:48
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He encontrado esta grabación de la BBC de 1973 (hace 50 años, medio siglo) donde se debate con varios expertos de la época cosas como la robótica, la IA y la computación algunos posibles impactos. Sospecho que es un documento histórico de oro -pero me lo tengo que mirar entero
01.09.2025 15:52
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¿A qué os recuerda esto?
30.08.2025 08:08
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Pues mi experiencia profesional respalda el contenido del artículo. En 25 años aplicando pruebas psicopedagógicas a alumnado de Primaria no se aprecia declive en el vocabulario, la habilidad lectora, ni en la capacidad atencional.
30.08.2025 08:46
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Muy fan del concepto «idIAtizar». 🥲
30.08.2025 09:20
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Mi próximo libro se va a titular: «Ciencia ficción para alinear tus chakras, conectar con el universo y manifestar tu propósito».
A ver si así... 💰 👀
30.08.2025 10:52
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War is never neutral. Neither is AI.
Autonomous weapons risk automating gender inequality — putting women, queer, & marginalized people at greater danger in conflict.
We need meaningful human control + a gender lens in regulation now.
🔗 medium.com/@stopkillerr...
#StopKillerRobots
18.08.2025 08:23
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¿De qué está hecho ChatGPT?
Esta semana quiero que echemos un vistazo bajo el capó de ChatGPT para entender qué tecnologías se esconden detrás de esa aparente "magia" conversacional.
Mucho se habla de #ChatGPT, pero poco se sabe.
En 2020, los modelos de lenguaje (#LLMs) no eran tan conocidos fuera de la academia, pero muchos retos siguen estando presentes. Ahora somos 500M de personas usando semanalmente herramientas como ChatGPT.
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18.08.2025 11:40
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The Figma plugin every UX designer needs for accessibility bit.ly/uxc-sta1 #ad #UX
11.08.2025 15:12
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We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents
The deployment of capable AI agents raises fresh questions about safety, human–machine relationships and social coordination.
A medida que los agentes de IA pasan de generar contenido a ejecutar acciones en el mundo real, necesitaríamos pensar en su moralidad. El artículo habla que el reto es esa falta de delimitación de su autonomía. www.nature.com/articles/d41... (vía @ujue.bsky.social )
11.08.2025 14:53
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En este libro, @patxangas.bsky.social y @ujue.bsky.social describen a estas máquinas deseantes —IA vinculada a la toma de decisiones— como cajas de resonancia, sesgadas y al servicio del “progreso”. Un “progreso” independiente de los impactos personales, sociales y ambientales.
11.08.2025 14:21
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Now #Mamdani faces his own version of that backlash. Billionaires are pledging “hundreds of millions” to stop him. Wall Street and media elites are warning of economic collapse.
11.08.2025 16:14
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A black and white photo shows a man on a stage, the American flag behind him, speaking to a crowd.
Sinclair’s plan: Turn idle farms and factories into cooperatives. He won the primary easily. But by November, business leaders, the media, and both parties had united to destroy his candidacy with fear and smear campaigns.
He lost. Badly.
Picture: Sinclair at his campaign headquarters ⬇️
11.08.2025 16:14
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A man waves through the window of a black car.
Flash back to 1934: Upton Sinclair, socialist author of “The Jungle”, won California’s Democratic primary for governor with a bold anti-poverty plan called End Poverty in California, or EPIC.
It was grassroots. It was radical. And it terrified elites.
Picture: Sinclair after a meeting with FDR ⬇️
11.08.2025 16:14
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When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect?
After Sinclair won the California Democratic primary in 1934, business and media elites helped derail his bid for the governorship.
Democratic Socialist Zohran #Mamdani shocked NYC by winning the Democratic mayoral primary—beating Andrew #Cuomo in a landslide.
But it wasn’t unprecedented. For historians, it looked a lot like socialist novelist Upton Sinclair’s primary victory in 1934 (thread)
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11.08.2025 16:14
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La intriga me mata, ¿fue por la pregunta que hizo o por preguntarte algo por iniciativa propia?
11.08.2025 21:21
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